Indian Fields' Biographies A - G |
Taken from, "The History of Tuscola County," H. R. Page Co., 1883. Transcribed by Bonnie J. Petee.
Charles O. Adams, millwright, was born at Parma, Monroe County, N. Y., and came to Michigan with his parents in 1835. They commenced farming in the township of Highland, Oakland County. From there they went to Atlas, Genesee County. Mr. Adams then removed to Fenton, and lived there eighteen years; came to Caro in 1874; was eleven months in the Third Michigan Cavalry and was discharged on account of disability, being at the time orderly sergeant of his company. He is a millwright by trade, and has followed that and the running of saw and grist-mills for twenty-five years. He is married and has four children.
D. H. Andrews was born in Geauga County, Ohio, in 1818, where he resided up to 1835, when he came to Tuscola County and took up the land where he now resides. He was married in 1839.
Theron W. Atwood, attorney, was born in White Oak, Ingham County, Mich. He is the son of Hon. H. P. Atwood, of Caro. He was educated at Ann Arbor, and graduated from the law department of the State University in 1875, and admitted to the bar at Caro the same year. He is married and has three children.
Edward Belmer was born in St. Charles, Lower Canada, now Quebec. When he was an infant his parents removed to Franklin County, New York, and located at Chautauqua first. The son was brought up at Malone, where his family removed to. He learned the tanners’ and shoemakers’ trades. In 1835 he went to Lewiston, New York. In 1853 he came to Tuscola County, bought land and cleared up a farm. Learned blacksmithing in his country, which trade he worked at on his farm in Almer, also at Wahjamega. Had his house, shop, tools, etc., destroyed by fire in 1863. In March, 1864, enlisted in Company H., Second Michigan Infantry. His regiment was in the Army of the Potomac, and he was with it in fourteen pitched battles, besides many skirmishes. His regiment was at the blowing up of Fort Hill, or "Fort Hell," as the soldiers called it, and was about decimated by its losses. Was discharged August 5, 1865. On coming back he resumed blacksmithing, which trade he has worked at for some twenty-two years. In 1869 came to Caro and kept a hotel and a store, dealing in general merchandise, also drugs and medicines. Is now (1883) a manufacturer of "Belmer’s Adhesive Salve," "Magic Oil," etc. In 1871 was burned out, losing everything again, including a stock of marble, another business he had engaged in. After the fire he lived in Flint some time. In 1875 came back to Caro again. Kept a hotel and store in the building now occupied by Parkhurst & Johnson. Held the office of town clerk in Almer, has also been a justice of the peace and highway commissioner. He was married in 1838 to Harriet Stafford, of Niagara County, New York. They have six children now living, four of them in the village of Caro. (There were two changes penciled into this biography of Edward Belmer. in 1819 was penciled in after Lower Canada, indicating his date of birth. The date of marriage had been scratched out and 1842 was penciled in. B. Petee)
Hon. Cyrenius P. Black, This gentlemen was born April 16, 1843, in Alfred, Allegany County, N. Y. The family is of Scotch extraction. Besides a common school education, he attended the university at Alfred Center. After leaving school he clerked for a while and also taught school in Allegany County. He began reading law at Angelica in the office of Martin Grover, judge of the court of appeals, of the State of New York, and subsequently entered the office of Marshal B. Champlain, attorney general of the State.
He came to Tuscola County in 1866, locating at Watrousville. Shortly after coming he was appointed assistance U. S. assessor of internal revenue for Tuscola County. He was admitted to the bar in 1867 and practiced law at Bay City until 1869, during which time he was a member of the legal firms of Shepard & Black and Black & Wheeler. In the fall of 1869 he was appointed administrator of the estate of Aaron Watrous and removed to Caro. Since living in Caro has been a partner of Hon. H. P. Atwood and Hon. John P. Hayt, late territorial governor of Arizona. In 1873 he entered into a co-partnership with Hon. D. H. Ball, of Marquette, and removed to that place. During his residence in the Lake Superior Country he was prosecuting attorney for Marquette County, also attorney for the city of Marquette. The firm of Ball & Black were attorneys for the Chicago & Northwestern, and the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon railway companies, also for a large number of the principal mining companies, among which were the New York mine (in which Samuel J. Tilden was the principal stockholder), the Republic, Lake Superior, Cleveland, Washington, etc. During his residence there he was engaged in some of the most important mining suits ever around the State. In 1877, in consequence of ill health, he was compelled to leave the Upper Peninsula and spend a year in the Rocky Mountains, part of the time at Denver. In 1878 he returned to Caro, and his health improving he resumed practice. When the contest settling the county seat at Caro was going on, Mr. Black was the supervisor for the township of Indian Fields, and it was largely owing to his untiring zeal and efforts that Caro retained the prize. He has served several terms on the Caro school board. The county of Tuscola is strongly Republican politically, and although Mr. Black is a Democrat, his personal popularity is such that whenever he has been nominated for office he has always run largely ahead of his ticket.
In 1880 he run against the present Senator Conger for congressman in the Seventh Congressional District. In Tuscola County Mr. Black was some 500 votes ahead of his party’s ticket, and about 800 in the district. In the fall of 1882 he was elected a member of the State legislature for the Second District of Tuscola County. At the session of the legislature held in 1883 he was a member of the judiciary, railroad, and deaf and dumb asylum at Flint, committees, and is also on the special committee to investigate the subject of discrimination in railroad freights. He married a daughter of the late Aaron Watrous, of Watrousville, and has a family of three children.
Mr. Black, from a boy of fourteen years, has worked his way in the world without pecuniary aid from any one. He is now a member of the firm of Black & Edson, attorneys, Caro, Mich.
Simeon Botsford is one of the earliest settlers of the town of Ellington, and one whose name is intimately connected with the early history of that town. He was born in the State of Connecticut, September 27, 1805. At twenty years of age he removed to Michigan with his parents and settled in Oakland County. In April, 1834, he was married in Oakland County to Miss Mary Ann Delling. In 1853 he visited Tuscola County on an exploring expedition with a view of locating if the prospect suited him He found a choice piece of land in the resent town of Ellington. In 1855 he brought his family and became one of the early settlers of that region, as is stated in the history of that town, which also is a record of Mr. Botsford’s activity in public affairs, and the service he was able to render in building up a new town and society. About two years ago Mr. Botsford left the farm, and is now living in the village of Caro.
George F. Brown was born in 1846 in Norfolk County, Ont., of American parentage. The family removed to the United States when he was six years of age. They first settled in St. Joseph County, Ind., on a farm, from whence they went to Cass County, Mich., in 1862. Remained there until 1871, when he went to St. Charles, Saginaw County, at which place he was in the stave business. In October, 1881, he came to Caro, having formed a copartnership with Francis Hood, of Saginaw County. They built the stave and heading works situated on the banks of the Cass River, near the Michigan Central Railway depot. While in St. Charles was supervisor for the township one term, also justice of the peace and a member of the village council five years. Was married to Miss Addie L. Salisbury, of Cass County, in 1870. They have two children.
Peter D. Bush, Among the names of the early settlers of Tuscola County will be found that of Peter D. Bush, who came into this section of Michigan about the year 1857, some twenty-five years ago. He was born in the town of Parma, Monroe County, N. Y., and his early days were spent on a farm. He and his brother Elias – both mere boys – came to Michigan in 1837, traveling through Canada. It was during the time of the Canadian rebellion, or "patriot war," as some called it. They met with considerable trouble on their way through Upper Canada, as it was then called, both from the Canadian militia and the Indians. Notwithstanding, however, they reached Detroit in safety. The people whom they met then expressed great surprise that two such striplings as they were had been able to make their way through.
They located in Highland, Oakland County, and commenced to clean up a farm, building a shanty for themselves, and keeping bachelor’s hall. After living in that township for a few years, Peter D. decided to remove to Tuscola County, and accordingly bought a quantity of land in the township of Indian Fields, on a part of which the flourishing village of Caro now stands, and removed there in the year 1857 After some years, Mr. Bush decided to lay out a village plat and accordingly employed Mr. D. A. Pettibone, a surveyor, from Lapeer, to do the work. The village was named Centerville, but the postoffice was known as Tuscola Center, as the rules of the postoffice department did not allow two offices of the same name in one State. The land on which the village was located was originally purchased from the late James J. McCormick, of Bay City, and was bought for Mr. Bush by the late Samuel P. Sherman. The ground on which the court-house now stands was cleared by Mr. B., and in 1866 was donated by him to the county.
The board of supervisors for Tuscola County at a meeting held June 19, 1866, passed a resolution, thanking the people of Centerville, and Mr. Peter D. Bush, especially, for the very welcome reception extended on their meeting at the new county seat.
On October 9, 1866, Messrs. L. Hurd, C. R. Selden, J. M. Dodge, B. W. Huston, and H. Remick were appointed a committee to examine the site for a court-house which Mr. Bush offered to donate to the county. On October 12th the committee reported that the site was a very suitable one, and recommended its acceptance by the county on his making a good and sufficient deed of the same, which he did a few days afterward, as the records show.
On June 8, 1867, a committee consisting of J. H. Richardson, H. Hobert, and D. P. Hinson were appointed to examine a building furnished by Mr. Bush to be used for county purposes. This building was donated to the county by Messers, Giles, Bush and others. It was moved from the opposite side of State Street to the county grounds, and was used for a number of years as a court-house, but was afterward moved back across the street, and is now used as a town hall.
Mr. Bush is yet but a man in the prime of life, scarce a gray hair to be seen on his head. He had been married three times, and has one son and a daughter living. The son, Mr. D. C. Bush, deals in sewing machines and millinery goods. The daughter is the wife of D. C. Deckensheets, village marshal. Mr. Bush is now resident of the village, but still carries on farming.
William A. Aalbeck is a native of the county of Peel, Ontario. Came to Michigan in 1874 and located at Caro, Tuscola County, where he engaged in the carriage making business. He continued at that for some time and then went into the meat market trade with D. D. Ingels. In 1878 he started a livery stable, and is at the present time (1883) running the same. Is married and has two children.
Sherman F. Chase, M. D., was born in 1849 in Morrow County, Ohio. Received his education in the schools of the neighborhood in which he was born. He commenced the study of medicine at Sparta, O., in 1868, afterward attended a course of lectures at Hahnemann College in Philadelphia, and graduated from the Homeopathic College of Detroit in 1872. Came to Caro, Tuscola County, in the fall of that year and began practice. Since here he has served two years as a member of the village council and three years as county physician. In the spring of 1883 was elected a school inspector for the township of Indian Fields. Was married to Lettie A. Crissey, a native of New York State, in 1874.
Augustus D. Cilley, The subject of the following sketch was born in Canton, Wayne County, Mich., where he lived until he arrived at the years of manhood. He was for some time in business at Canton, but leaving there he went to Detroit and was for a number of years engaged in business as a general commission merchant. Having become the owner of some pine lands in Tuscola County, he came here in 1865 to look after them. While here he decided to remove to the county and build a saw-mill, which he did, building it in the township of Almer, about two miles east and four miles north of what is now the village of Caro. The difficulties in the way of erecting a mill in those days, 1865, were very great, as everything had to be brought by teams from East Saginaw. The roads were primitive ones, and their condition was such that it took six spans of horses to haul the boiler from the last named place to the site of the mill. There was no foundry or machine shop nearer than East Saginaw at the time capable of making mill repairs, and any breakage in the machinery necessitated a shutting down of the mill until the necessary repairs were made, which of course involved a trip to the last named place. Tuscola County now ranks among the first in the State as an agricultural county, but at the time Mr. Cilley was building and running his mill he could not purchase enough here to feed his people, consequently it had also to be brought in by teams. He operated the mill until 1872, when it was destroyed by fire, together with a large quantity of valuable lumber, entailing a loss upon him of about $30,000. After the fire on account of ill health he went to California with the hope that a change of climate might prove beneficial. It failed to have the desired effect, however, Mr. C. dying at Sacramento, Ca., in December, 1872.
His body was brought home and buried at Canton, Wayne County, Mich. Mr. Cilley was a man who was much esteemed by those who knew him, and in leaving a comfortable home with pleasant surroundings in the city of Detroit and locating in what was literally a wilderness at that time, he was a veritable pioneer, and to a great extent a public benefactor. There are few houses in Caro or the adjoining townships which were build previous to the destruction of his mill by fire in 1872, the lumber used in the construction of which was not cut at his mill. The farmers and others in the neighborhood had to haul lumber for long distances over bad roads, and Mr. Cilley’s enterprise was a great saving in both time and money to them, a benefit which many very freely acknowledge to-day, and also speak in high terms of him.
Mrs. Mary J. Cilley, widow of the late Augustus D. Cilley, was born in Northumberland County, Penn. The family were from England originally, her grandfather being during his life time an extensive land owner and prominent man in that part of Pennsylvania.
Her father, James Silverwood, came to Michigan in 1845, settling in Wayne County, about eighteen miles from Detroit. He was engaged in farming, and also transacted other business. Miss Silverwood was married to Mr. Cilley in 1859. At the time of her marriage Mrs. C.’s husband was in business in the village of Canton, but left there and went to Detroit, and from there he removed to Tuscola County. Since his death Mrs. C. has been extensively engaged in business, such as lumbering, farming and stock raising, also running a grist-mill. She has had three daughters, but two of whom are living, the eldest dying shortly after the removal of the family to Tuscola County
George W. Davis was born January 12, 1851, in Attica, Lapeer County, Mich., and received a common school education. On the maternal side he is of Puritan descent. Her maiden name was Wilder, a name which was borne by one of the families that came over in the "Mayflower." His family left Lapeer County in 1856 and settled in Tuscola County, but after a short stay returned to the former. Some time afterward he again came to this county, locating in the township of Fair Grove. In 1868 he went to Detroit and studied law in the office of his brother, E. G. Davis, for about two years. In 1870 he came to Fair Grove and for some four years devoted his attention to the study of theology, and at times in 1872 and 1874 lecturing upon subjects connected with that study. From 1874 till 1878 he was in the timber and stave trade. In 1878 he again resumed the study of law, also working at the carpenter’s trade. Since 1880 has been practicing law in justices’ courts. In February, 1883, was admitted to the bar at Caro. Previous to this admission he resided in Akron, but has since removed to Caro. In addition to practicing law he deals in real estate. Married and has four children.
Daniel D. Dopking, deceased, was one of the early settlers of Tuscola County, having first come to the county in 1851. He was a native of Jefferson County, New York, and was born February 15, 1826. His parents emigrated from that State to Michigan in 1832, settling on a farm in the township of Rose, Oakland County, Michigan, and there Mr. D. passed his early years. On coming to this county he pre-empted, under the then existing laws, 160 acres of land in the township of Indian Fields, being the northeast quarter of section 17. He then returned to Rose Township, Oakland County, where his father engaged in farming, and on the 22nd of October he led to the altar Mrs. Mariette A. Ingraham, daughter of a farmer in the adjoining township of Springfield. On the 11th of November Mr. and Mrs. Dopking started for their home in Tuscola County, their conveyance being a wagon drawn by an ox team. The first night they stopped in Flint, the second night at Tuscola, the third night at Pat McGlone’s in Watrousville, and at noon of the fourth day reached Wahjamega in a soaking rainstorm and a sea of mud. On arriving at the latter place circumstances necessitated a change in his plans, and he took a contract for getting out timber for Charles Stuck, the proprietor of the milling privilege at that point, and in March following he built a small shanty on his land, moved into it and commenced the work of improving his purchase. The first year he cleared five acres, and during the succeeding three years his improvement was very small, as he was obliged at frequent intervals to go out to work, in order that himself and family might be provided with the necessaries of life. At the end of three years of miscellaneous toil he found that he could afford to confine his labor to the farm, as it was then sufficiently improved to furnish him a living, ten acres having been put under the plow.
Previous to his coming to Tuscola County, Mr. Dopking had learned the trade of a cooper in New York, having gone back to his native State when he was about twenty-one years of age. On his return to Michigan he worked at his trade for some time at Rochester in Oakland County. But his inclination tended to farming, and he relinquished the coopering business.
Mr. Dopking commenced his farming operations under peculiarly discouraging circumstances, and to a man possessed of less energy and grit the prospect before him would have been dark, indeed. He had faith in the quality of the soil, and was satisfied with the location, and he resolved to stick to the place as long as a living could be eked out. Though Mrs. Dopking’s life at her father’s home had been surrounded with all the comforts incidental to the life of a well-to-do farmer, she never flinched from the struggle, and very often cheered her husband on to renewed effort. There were no roads to speak of in the immediate vicinity of the farm, and but one road leading to Vassar from Wahjamega. During certain seasons of the year this road was well nigh impassable, and the few settlers found it difficult to transport such necessaries as could not be obtained at Wahjamega. Everything raised on the farms had a ready market at the highest prices, as the lumbermen operating on the Cass River were glad to purchase of the farmer’s and save transportation. On leaving Oakland County Mr. Dopking had mapped out his future course in his mind and on paper, but his prospects were completely blasted by inability to obtain food for his cattle. He expected the first winter to chop some six acres and put it in condition for cropping that year, and figured that he could raise enough millet and oats to tide him over the next winter.
But with the money received for is services in looking up pine land and the proceeds of his surplus crop, Dopking got along passably, and after the first three years had glided by he realized that his farm amounted to something.
Being a thoroughly practical farmer his crops resulted finely, and the rich quality of the soil was a source of much comfort to him.
Mr. Dopking lived on his farm for thirty years, and at the time of his death, which occurred April 23, 1882, had made for himself and family a comfortable, pleasant home; one which it would seem that he ought to have enjoyed to a ripe old age, considering the labor and trials he went through in building it up. He was only fifty-six years of age at the time of his death.
Mrs. Dopking, who survives her husband, is a well-preserved lady, and bids fair to live many years yet. After his death she rented her farm and bought a dwelling in Caro, where she lives with her youngest daughter, Miss Etta, and youngest son, Luther I. The eldest son, William D., lives on a farm in Indian Fields, and the eldest daughter is Mrs. John Beach, of Cass City.
Frank Dyer is a member of the firm of Johnson & Dyer, dealers in watches, clocks, jewelry, etc. He was born in Wellington, Ohio, and learned the watchmaker’s trade in Cleveland. He came to Michigan in 1878 and was in the employ of D. W. Briggs, of Vassar, for two years. Early in 1880 he moved to Caro and was employed by Gilbert Johnson, watchmaker and jeweler. After being in that gentleman’s establishment some twenty-two months he became a partner in the business. Is married and has one child, a boy.
Rufus P. Edson, of the firm of Black & Edson, attorneys, was born September 16, 1841, in Olive, Ulster County, N. Y. He received a part of his education at Franklin Literary Institute, Franklin, Delaware County. In 1859 he commenced the study of law, reading for a year in the office of Judge Gleason, at Delhi, and for two years in Henry R. Mygett’s office, at Oxford, N. Y. He then enlisted in the One Hundred Forty-fourth New York Infantry, in which regiment he was color sergeant for six months, when he was promoted to a second lieutenancy, receiving his commission from Governor Horatio Seymour. He served two years with the regiment and was in a number of engagements. On his return to New York State he again studied law under Henry Vanderlyn, (one of the oldest lawyers in the State) in the office of Mr. Mygett. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar at a general term of the supreme court, held at Binghampton. After his admission he went West, living in the city of Minneapolis, Minn., for about a year, and practicing law at Sauk Center, Stearns County, for another year, and then removed to Kalamazoo, Mich., where he was a partner of Judge Hawes for five years. In 1874 he came to Tuscola County, locating at Unionville, and the following year removed to Caro. In 1876 he was elected prosecuting attorney, and held the office by re-elections until January 1, 1883. The Caro Advertiser and Citizen said of him, about the conclusion of his term of office: "He has made an acceptable official, and to his credit be it said, that during the last term of court the criminals who transgressed the law were as vigorously prosecuted as during his first term. When satisfied of the guilt of persons, he has been a terror in ferreting out and punishing them." At the close of his term of office he formed a partnership with the Hon. C. P. Black. He is a man of family, having a wife and two sons.
William S. Fritz, dentist, was born in the town of Sugarloaf, Columbia County, Penn. His parents were farmers and he was brought up on a farm. Aside from a common school education he attended the State normal school at Bloomsburg. For four winters following the time he was at the foregoing school he taught school two terms in his native township and one term each in Briar Creek and Center, in Columbia County. In 1870 he came West, locating near Watrousville, in Tuscola County. He taught school for four winter terms in the township of Juniata, and one term each in Akron, Fair Grove, Gilford and Almer; also one term in Stockbridge, Ingham County. In 1871 he studied dentistry, and from that time until 1878 he practiced that profession in summer and teaching in winter. Since 1878, however, he has devoted his time solely to the practice of his profession, and from a very meager business has succeeded in building up a very lucrative practice. Mr. Fritz is also a farmer, having bought in 1880 the southwest fractional quarter of section 7, range 9, in the township of Almer, which he rents. It is only partially cleared up, but in 1882 it produced among other crops 530 bushels of wheat. Has a family of a wife, and two children.
Ebenezer W. Gerrish was born in the State of Maine. His parents removed from there when he was an infant and made their residence at Pittsford, N. Y., where he remained until he was nineteen years old. He then went to Erie, Pa. He studied for a while at Allegheny College, Crawford County, Pa. He then commenced to learn the profession of civil engineer in Erie County, and followed it for about three years. He afterward spent some five years in Ashtabula County and Kingsville, Ohio. In 1867 or 68 he removed to Tuscola County, Mich., and located in the village of Centerville, now Caro. He has been a justice of the peace four years and town treasurer one year. As resident member of the committee appointed to supervise the building of the present court-house he superintended the construction of that building. He is now, aside from practicing his profession, engaged in the insurance and real estate business. He is married and has two sons.
George F. Getty was born in Alleghany County, Md. His parents removed to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, when he was quite young, where they went on a farm. He attended the Smithville Academy, Wayne County, Ohio, after which he taught school some five winters. He also attended the Northwestern Ohio Normal School at Ada, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1879. He read law at the office of John A. Hostatler at Canal Dover, Ohio, and attended two courses of law lectures at Ann Arbor in 1881. He was admitted to the bar at the latter place in 1882. He then came to Caro and became a member of the firm of Hurst & Getty, attorneys. He was elected circuit court commissioner for Tuscola County in 1882. He is married and has one child.
Sabin Gibbs was born in Benson, Rutland County, VT, where he received his education. For some years previous to coming West, Mr. Gibbs was in the canal boat business, carrying passengers and their baggage through the Erie Canal to Buffalo, it being before the New York Central Railroad was built. Afterward he was engaged in carrying iron ore from Port Henry, N. Y., to various points on the Hudson River, also to Newark, N. J. He came to Michigan in 1847, making his home at Ypsilanti, where he worked for Norris & Follett, lumber manufacturers. In 1851 he moved to Vassar, Tuscola County, and was employed in Hon. T. North’s saw-mill for one year. In 1852 he went to Tuscola village and took charge of Isaac Miller’s saw-mill, remaining there a year and a half. In 1854 he went into the hotel business, keeping the first hotel in Tuscola for about a year. He then kept the Curry House three and a half years, also the Tuscola House, built by W. H. Harrison, for five years. In 1862 he was elected sheriff of Tuscola County, serving two years. In 1864 he was elected county treasurer, in which office he continued until January 1, 1871. The first two years he was treasurer his office was at Vassar, that being the county seat, and on its removal to Caro he removed also. During his residence in the latter place he served one term as member of the village council. Since 1871 he has been in the real estate and insurance business. He occupies a brick dwelling-house on Almer Street, which is one of the neatest and most tasty appearing residences in a village which is dotted with nice houses. It was built by him in 1875. He has been married twice and has three children.
J. Ralph Gillespie is the junior member of the firm of J. S. Gillespie & Son, abstract and real estate agents. He was born in Grand Rapids. He and his father have been in the abstract business at Grand Rapids, Romeo, Armada, Corunna, Owosso and Ypsilanti. Mr. Gillespie, Jr. lived at one time in East Saginaw, also at Midland. His father and himself came to Caro in 1876. Is married and has one child.
Frank A. Goodell was born and brought up on a farm in Vermont. From there he went to Port Byron, N. Y. When the war of the rebellion broke out he enlisted in the Seventy-fifth New York Infantry. He served twenty-six months in this regiment until discharged on account of wounds received at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River, losing a leg therefrom. After leaving the army he went to Seneca Falls, N. Y., and in 1866 came to East Dayton, Tuscola County. In 1870 he was elected register of deeds for Tuscola County, holding the office two years. He has been in the mercantile trade in the State of Colorado, also at East Dayton, Tuscola County, and is now in business in Caro. Is married and has two children.
George B. Gregory, M. D., is a native of Utica, New York. In 1866 came to Lapeer, Michigan. He attended the homeopathic colleges at Cleveland and Detroit, also the Wooster University, an allopathic institution in Cleveland. He graduated at the Detroit College in 1874, and from the Wooster University in 1878. Practiced his profession in Lapeer and Ovid. In 1882 came to Caro. Married and has two children.
Transcribed by Bonnie Petee